[Dnsmasq-discuss] Two instances of Dnsmasq on one VPN network

J Silverman g1powermac at yahoo.com
Thu Aug 9 17:21:42 BST 2007


Hello Simon,

I was just researching this a bit more and was thinking of using except-interface=<openvpn_interface>.  Would the no-dhcp-interface be a better choice?

Thanks,
J Silverman

Simon Kelley <simon at thekelleys.org.uk> wrote: J Silverman wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Here's my situation:  I have two Openwrt running routers that have a
> openvpn bridged network setup between them.  Both routers also have
> dnsmasq running on them, which seems to create some problems.  I have
> it set that each dnsmasq has a separate IP range so I don't get
> duplicate IPs on the network.  However, from what I can tell, a race
> condition seems to happen between the two dnsmasq instances.  Every
> so often, a computer hooked up to the one router will get an IP
> address (and default gateway info) from the other router running
> dnsmasq.  This causes issues with the VPN network since that computer
> will now route all its traffic to the remote router and internet
> connection.  So basically, I want to have each instance of dnsmasq
> only service the local lan and not over the VPN bridge.  Is there a
> way to do this?

add something like

no-dhcp-interface=

to /etc/dnsmasq.conf in each router. That should stop them from reacting
to DHCP broadcasts coming over VPN from the other router.


HTH

Simon.

> 
> Thanks, J Silverman
> 
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